Word: kramer
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...discussed the merits of such home remedies as olive oil and vinegar. In Rhode Island, Idaho and Florida, parents are trading tips on smearing their kids' hair with vaseline, steam cleaning the carpets and storing teddy bears in the refrigerator. "It's creating a lot of havoc," says Wayne Kramer, the Nebraska state medical entomologist, who has received 125 calls since the beginning of the school year, many more than usual. "I think it's on the brink of being out of control...
...magnifying glass that is used in the museum for conservation work so that I could check her head for lice. I tried every shampoo on the market. I bagged all her toys. I washed 20 loads of laundry every week. But they would just keep coming back." Says Kramer, the medical entomologist: "It's so frustrating for so many people. We can't really recommend products that are 100% effective...
Thank you, Robert Wright, for bringing the subtleties of adult differentiation, autonomy and egotism to the attention of the general public in the review of Peter Kramer's book about divorce, Should You Leave? [FAMILY, Oct. 6]. Conservatives who criticize Kramer for suggesting a healthy separation of the self for fulfilling, intimate relationships would do well to read Martin Buber's I and Thou for the ultimate description of the fullest and healthiest of human and spiritual relationships. Perhaps then they would understand that viewing relationships as extensions of oneself is the ultimate in self-indulgence. VIRGINIA K. GORDON Highland...
Wright does not say is that I spend the rest of the book questioning the ideal of autonomy. For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment. Autonomy--independence--is our premier national value, but it can make for strange bedfellows. PETER D. KRAMER Providence...
...live with your choice? Kramer's approach draws heavily on the notion of "differentiation of self," developed by the late family therapist Murray Bowen. A person with high differentiation of self is secure--not desperate for signals of approval and affection from others, and thus not easily swayed by social pressure. Bowen considered such autonomy healthy and encouraged people to carry it into their family lives. He wanted them to weaken their emotional ties to kin, including spouses and children...